We invite submissions to a collection of essays (already in progress)entitled Anomalous Eyes: Postcoloniality and the Detective. Essays shouldaddress such questions as: In what ways do societies in the throes ofdecolonization or postcoloniality resist or transform the epistemological"truth quest" conventionalized in the structure of the detective narrative?Can the detective novel operate independently of national, imperial, orglobal ideologies? How have authors worked with the figure of the detectivein ways that complicate the narrative or ideological stances typicallyassociated with modernism and postmodernism? And what happens when authors

Callaloo seeks creative and multi-disciplinary critical submissions for aspecial issue on "postcoloniality and blackness." For this issue, we areinterested in looking comparatively at the uneven postcolonial situation ofblack peoples and cultures in the 21st century. We seek to explore thediverse material and political circumstances of black postcolonials, and thelimitations of current postcolonial theorizing for the black experience.

Creative SubmissionsPreviously unpublished work in all genres, including interviews.

CALL FOR PAPERS"Animals and Globalization"Seminar at the American Comparative Literature Association 2006ConferenceMarch 23-26, 2006Princeton, NJProposals due November 30, 2005Conference Website: http://webscript.princeton.edu/~acla06/site/